We agreed to explore in different directions, returning to the summit to report progress.

In half an hour we stood together once again.

There was no need for words.
The face of one and all of us announced plainly that at last we had discovered a recess of German nature untarnished by the sordid suggestion of food or drink.
"I should never have believed it possible," said Harris: "would you ?" "I should say," I replied, "that this is the only square quarter of a mile in the entire Fatherland unprovided with one." "And we three strangers have struck it," said George, "without an effort." "True," I observed.

"By pure good fortune we are now enabled to feast our finer senses undisturbed by appeal to our lower nature.

Observe the light upon those distant peaks; is it not ravishing ?" "Talking of nature," said George, "which should you say was the nearest way down ?" "The road to the left," I replied, after consulting the guide book, "takes us to Sonnensteig--where, by-the-by, I observe the 'Goldener Adler' is well spoken of--in about two hours.